12 Creative Family Portraits. I thought we'd end the week with a collection of creative family portraits. Though the holidays are now officially over (and there's no more Christmas "photo" cards to be made), you can still take pictures of your family in any number of creative ways. We've rounded up 10 ideas that include everything from simply layering your family's hands to using a small chalkboard as a prop.
Our favorite idea is the one above, that just features colorful rain boots in the air. "Part of my sister's family holiday card for this year," states Kathy on Flickr. "6 kids and 1 mom. " For more fun photo ideas check out 13 Creative Photo Ideas Found on Pinterest or 8 Fantastic Photo Ideas You Can Do Right Now. Above photo credit: Kathy Wolfe Via: Pinterest Photo credit: Sarah L. Photo credit: Justin Van Leeuwen Photo credit: Kevin N. Photo credit: Erik Christian Photo credit: Lori Andrews Photo credit: Rolland Andras Flinta Photo credit: John Hook Photo credit: Martin Bennett Photo credit: Jason Lee Via: Pinterest. 15 Beautiful & Mystical Space Photos. These eerie, dark, pillar-like structures - part of the Eagle Nebula - are columns of cool, interstellar hydrogen gas and dust that serve as incubators for new stars - Hubble Space Telescope 1995.
On its 100,000th orbit of planet Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope peered into a small portion of the Tarantula Nebula near the star cluster NGC 2074, unveiling its stellar nursery. The region is a firestorm of raw stellar creation, triggered perhaps by a nearby supernova. 3. Wolf-Rayet Star The massive star a Wolf-Rayet star, is the bright blue one near the center of the nebula. 4. Magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 4565 is likely similar to our own spiral galaxy, but viewed edge-on from far away. 5. This image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, is a very thin section of a supernova remnant caused by a stellar explosion that occurred more than 1,000 years ago. 6. 7. This highly oblique image of northwestern African captures the curvature of the Earth and shows its atmosphere. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
22 Crazy Perspective Photos Taken With a GoPro Camera. Chances are that if you're into extreme sports, you already know about GoPro, the company that makes small, wearable, waterproof and shockproof cameras. Founder Nick Woodman was inspired to start a company dedicated to adventure photography after a 2002 surfing trip to Australia. Hoping to capture incredible images, he soon discovered that high quality equipment could not be obtained for reasonable prices. So, he decided to start a company where everyday people could capture professional-like shots. Hence, the company's name "GoPro. " GoPro's cameras have now been used by the surfing community as well as by the skiing, bicycling, and skydiving communities. Watch that video after enjoying these 22 photos taken at crazy perspectives by GoPro cameras. Above: Grant Davis used the GoPro Wi-Fi BacPac + Wi-Fi Combo Kit to capture this epic shot on Australia's Gold Coast!
GoPro rockstar Bucky Lasek handplants it in his backyard pool. Trampoline fun with GoPro user Sindre "Hangloose" Hauglin! 32 Pictures That Will Make You Say Awwwwwwww. 1150 Pixel Photography Magazine | PhotoExtract. In Focus. Lily Pond Lilies and Lotus Flower Paintography by Ray Bilcliff. Matt Wisniewski combines old and new in his beautiful photo collages. Some people create images to make a statement. Others, like Matt Wisniewski, do it because it looks pretty. “It’s mostly just aesthetic,” explains the 21-year-old computer science student of his spectral photo collages. “Whatever looks nice, really.”
Art for art’s sake is no new conceit. But Wisniewski has created a particularly successful iteration by overlaying portraits with organic patterns—from flowers to jagged peaks to a Rorschach blot. He came to the combination through experimentation. The process begins with images from Tumblr and other online portfolios. For his image of a bearded man in a diaphanous red coat, Wisniewski found an overlay photo that “fit well and had a similar shape to his body.” Matt Wisniewski Untitled from "Cold Embrace," 2011 Whether he works on the face or body is also guided by aesthetic fancy. Wisniewski, who studies at New York’s Rochester Institute of Technology, prefers Photoshop to a paintbrush. National Geographic Photo Contest 2011 - Alan Taylor - In Focus.
National Geographic is currently holding its annual photo contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 30. For the past nine weeks, the society has been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to vote for them as well. National Geographic was kind enough to let me choose among its entries from 2011 for display here on In Focus.
Gathered below are 45 images from the three categories of People, Places, and Nature, with captions written by the individual photographers. [45 photos] Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: Many people pilgrimage to Uluru, but what is seen there often depends on where you've come from. Eruption of the Cordon del Caulle. Beluga whales in the arctic having fun. This is a streetcar in New Orleans traveling back towards The Quarter on St. This image captures almost 6 hours of climbing parties on Rainier going for the summit under starry skies. Russia, polar region of West Siberia, Tazovsky Peninsula. Photo Gallery, Photo Galleries, Art Gallery, Photography, Buy Prints. Photo dictionary - photo/picture definition at Photo Dictionary in English. Trees Cocooned in Webs After Flood. Photograph courtesy Russell Watkins, U.K. Department for International Development Trees shrouded in ghostly cocoons line the edges of a submerged farm field in the Pakistani village of Sindh, where 2010's massive floods drove millions of spiders and possibly other insects into the trees to spin their webs.
Beginning last July, unprecedented monsoons dropped nearly ten years' worth of rainfall on Pakistan in one week, swelling the country's rivers. The water was slow to recede, creating vast pools of stagnant water across the countryside. "It was a very slow-motion kind of disaster," said Russell Watkins, a multimedia editor with the U.K.' According to Watkins, who photographed the trees during a trip to Pakistan last December, people in Sindh said they'd never seen this phenomenon before the flooding.
(See pictures: "World's Biggest, Strongest Spider Webs Found. ") As for what exactly had spun the webs, Watkins said: "There wasn't a scientific analysis of this being done. —Ker Than. These 50 Photos Will Blow you Away. Your Favorites - Enjoy! - Trey Ratcliff | Stuck In Customs | HDR Photography Portfolio. What In The?!: INSANE Posed Ant Photography. Russian photographer Andrey Pavlov takes insane macro pictures of LIVE ants by spending hours and hours playing with them and posing them to get the perfect shot. I...can't even believe half of them are real. Of course I have zero experience posing ants and have only burnt them with a magnifying glass, so maybe it's actually easier than I thought.
Hit the jump for a smattering of the VERY worthwhile shots, and a link to the entire collection with a ton more. Artist's Gallery (with a TON more) viaAmazing Ant Photography [incrediblethings] Thanks to bb, who's never ruined a picnic. When Graphic Artists Get Bored - The Worthympic Games 7 [Worth1000]